It has come to the knowledge that lots of deliberations are going on at present regarding a new Santa Barbara County administration building off Betteravia Road destined to free up space in the existing county government center. The quandary has given rise to a fresh series of debates and for that reason the city’s planning panel has already had a glance of the project on a 5.5-acre property between East Lakeside and Southside parkways. Santa Barbara County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the southern portion of the U.S. state of California, just west of Ventura County.
What will the role of the city then? Well, it is a county project and hence there shall be no review on the part of the city. Let’s talk of the project or landsite then. It has been learnt that the project site is a county-owned property and is situated next to the College Square shopping center at the southwest corner of Betteravia Road and College Drive and across Lakeview Parkway from the Betteravia Government Center Administration Building at 511 E. Lakeview Parkway, which provides housing for the county Board of Supervisors’ hearing room and other county offices in Santa Maria.
It is to be noted that the plan was introduced by John Green or the project manager for the county. However, while providing details for, Greg Ravatt, the project architect mentioned of a 13,500-square-foot, one-story building with a large hearing room at its center in addition to a room for closed sessions and offices for each of the five supervisors, the county CEO, county counsel, and Government Access TV.
This is not all and there would be other facilities in addition. There would be the inclusion of a backup emergency operations center (EOC) lest the county’s primary EOC on the South Coast fails to operate. Furthermore, it has been stated the existing building would be arranged in a new way at an estimated cost of $240,000 after the new center is constructed.
Nevertheless, the project is unfunded right now and that makes observers sceptical of its completion.
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